Note from Chivis: This Proceso article from 2007
takes us back in time when the Milenio Criminal Organization, were powerhouse
traffickers who began as avocado merchants, who began in the marijuana business in the 70's and trafficked drugs until the 1990’s.They became cocaine lords of the Pacific,
moving the most drugs in Mexico, including marijuana cocaine and synthetic…yet under
the radar, even the PGR did not know who they were.

Within the Valencias Milenio organization, there was a kid who began with the organization at a young age. He began in the avocado fields. He
became hitman and narco with the Valencia. Later he became an operator for the trafficking
of marijuana and poppy from the municipality of Aguililla, Michoacán, eventually,
he even looked after the patriarch, El Maradonas boss. He married one of
the Valencia’s.His moniker is “El
Mencho”.

This Milenio organization
became “Los Cuinis” and the creation of a new partnership immediately followed, Cartel Jalisco New Generation.
Headed by El Mencho….

Noteworthy in this
article, it states what has surfaced in the El Chapo case, that El Mayo was the
real leader and Chapo an emblematic figure to keep the heat off Mayo. Sinaloa
was allied with Milenio.

Drug trafficking and
violence in the states of Michoacán, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas are being
carried by a fearsome network composed of the Valencia Organization and the
Sinaloa Cartel. A federal intelligence report names the members of this
conglomerate known as the Milenio (millennium) Cartel, with personal
information and pictures.

Backed by their
alliance with the Sinaloa Cartel, the criminal organization is known as Los
Valencia before known as the Cartel del Milenio expands: alongside Joaquin El
Chapo Guzman's network. They dominate the state of Michoacán and their powerful
ramifications encompass Jalisco, Sonora, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas.

To make matters worse,
Los Valencia and their associates from Michoacán already control a good portion
of detachments and offices belonging to the federal corporations in that area.
Such as the township of Zamora and Los Reyes, where some elements of the
Federal Preventive Police have ties with and support the criminal corporation Valencia-Milenio
with their drug trafficking.

From avocado merchants,
The Valencia transformed into a powerful organization of drug traffickers in
the late 90's who the Attorney General's Office had no idea existed.

The leaders of the
Milenio Cartel back in the day where Luis and Armando Valencia Cornelio. They
started to grow in the drug business and they were seen as the lords of the
Mexican Pacific. They transported hundreds of tons of cocaine into the USA by
means of tuna boats and during several years their grand business stayed under
the radar.

But their luck ran out
when their provider: Colombian Gino Brunetti was apprehended and placed in
protective custody after revealing information to the PGR about this power
cartel who operated in the shadows.

Brunetti asked the
anti-drug prosecutors during a ministerial interrogation while in the presence
of Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos who was director of the now extinct Unit that
Specialized in organized crime (UEDO):

Brunetti: Do you guys
have any knowledge as far as which cartel is the one that moves the most drugs
currently?

Popo: No

Popo: Which cartel are
you referring to? They asked.

Brunetti: Los Valencia.
The Millenium Cartel.

Popo: Who are the
Valencia? They asked the Colombian witness.

Brunetti: They are the
most important and power importers of drugs into the United States.

Brunetti who supplied
cocaine to other cartels like the Tijuana Cartel started to talk in detail
about the Valencia Organization in Michoacán

This is how the PGR obtained
the details about the operations of the Valencia Cartel, their alliances,
routes, infrastructure, protection network, companies used to launder money,
and above all, their fleet of tuna boats which was their main means of
transportation for moving large shipments of coke through the Pacific Ocean.

The
Key names

Locating the leaders of
the cartel and their main associates was a problem for the PGR because in the
state of Michoacán more so in the city of Morelia and Uruapan thousands of
people have the last name Valencia. Which made it difficult to penetrate the
core of the organization

After several months of
investigating, the PGR was able to put the puzzle together and identified Luis
Valencia Valencia and Armando Valencia Cornelio as the leaders of the cartel.

The Valencia cartel
suffered heavy losses in a 10-year timeframe. In 2003 it was speculated that
with the detention of its main leaders, amongst them, Armando Valencia, known
as El Maradona, the criminal group would be exterminated.

But currently it not
only is active in the drug trade, but their power increased after establishing
an strategic alliance with an organization belonging to Joaquín Guzmán Loera,
Ismael El Mayo Zambada, Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, El Azul, the Beltran
Leyva brothers and Nacho Coronel, the latter operating out of Jalisco and is
considered by the PGR and Secretary of Public Security as the third most
powerful man of that organization.

Based on an
intelligence report elaborated by the PGR and military intelligence personnel
in Michoacan, to which this weekly had access to, The Valencia Cartel not only
has new faces, but for the first time in the recent history of drug trafficking
we are able to see a detailed report not only with names but also pictures of
its main operators and hitmen.

Oscar Nava 'El Lobo' Valencia

According to the
report, the leader of the cartel goes by the name Salvador Revueltas Ureña and
he is known as El Chava Lentes (Salvador lenses/glasses) or El innombrable (the
nameless); another leader that has a branch under his command is Luis Valencia
Valencia, who is related to Armando Valencia.

The aforementioned
report also includes ex-military personnel like Arturo Alanis N, who served as
director of public safety in the township of Los Reyes and ex-commander of the
Municipal Police; Jose Luis Caballero, El Cementerio(the cemetery); Ernesto
Mendoza Alvarez or Alvarez Mendoza, Rodrigo Urbina Garcia and Pablo Angel
Vazquez Duarte, El Tupo(the pin).

The document states
that Juan Jose Farias Alvarez, El Abuelo (the grandfather), and Salvador
Revueltas Ureña, El Chava Lentes, maintain a close relationship with Arturo
Peña Muñoz, known as Flaco (skinny) Peña, who is considered by authorities as
one of the leaders of the Millennium Cartel and is currently in prison at La Palma.

The same report
indicates that at the time of his apprehension el Flaco Peña was in a meeting
with Eloy Treviño Garcia, Arturo Peña Muñoz, Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ruedas,
German Oler Rosales, Leonardo Perez Nieto, Javier Martinez, and Alberto
Caballero Valencia.

The implication of drug
dealers with federal police is shown with an overwhelming document: Jorge
Castro Barriga, also known as El Abuelo, "has a sister that works in the
offices of the federal preventive police in Zamora, Michoacan"

Organization
chart of the Cartel

On the Organization
chart labeled: Network Structure "Milenio", is the name Sofia
Valencia Cortes, mother of Luis Valencia, and next to that are the names of
other siblings: Angelita, Baltasar, Elvia, Albina, Rosa, Amparo, Elias, and
Ventura, amongst others.

Included is Jorge Luis
Valencia González who was identified as a Cartel operator in Aguililla and it
states "that he is the son of Elias Valencia Valencia."

The document also
highlights that Jorge, Erika, Alejandra, and Selma Yamira form part of the cartel
and are the children of Jorge Luis Valencia Rodriguez and Irma Rodriguez
Valencia. Also included is Jorge Luis Valencia Rodriguez and under his picture
reads: "Jorge Luis Valencia, alias Fernando Barajas, the day of the
assault April 12th, 2001".

On the left side of the
organization, chart are pictures of females with a wide smile on their faces,
hitmen for the cartel, money launderers, associates and women whose images were
taken in palenques, which is the entertainment that the Valencia most enjoy.

On there is, for
example, Alicia Sandoval Caballero, who is identified as being the "wife
of Armando Valencia Cornelio", who was detained in Guadalajara and is
currently in prison at La Palma.

Next to her is a
picture of another female with long dark hair; it is Olivia Magaña Guillen,
"lover of Armando Valencia Cornelio" Next to her is a female
identified as Ines Castañeda Oseguera, who is also said to be "lover of
Armando Valencia Cornelio"

Under those pictures,
showing for the most part only the face is 8 men, all of them with ties to the
cartel, which according to the report, it states that they are "alleged
security detail for Luis Valencia Valencia. These are the men that are seen
accompanying him at the cockfights where they compete and are yet to be identified."

Further down are the
faces of 5 women, supposedly related directly or indirectly with the criminal
organization. The PGR document on these women states: "Women who have been
seen accompanying Luis Valencia at the cockfights"

Next are the supposed
hitmen, amongst them are Alfonso Arreguin Bravo, El Alazan, and Fernando
Gonzalez Mejia, El Macho Prieto, "gunman of the Valencia Cornelio"

Ties with Ye Gon foto taken in China

On a box, the report
signals: "The structure has institutional protection through government agencies,
in specific from the State Attorney General's Office and Department of the
Interior. It is not precise whether such protection is through the current
state administration or previous administrations. Even after 2 agents where
identified accompanying Luis Valencia Valencia at the exit of a cockfight in
Morelia and during the attempt on April 12th he was facilitated the means to
evade the authorities."

According to the PGR,
Los Valencia linked with businessmen of Chinese origins Zhenli Ye Gon, whose criminal
organization had (or has) important operators in Michoacán because through the
port of Lazaro Cardenas is where they would import the majority of their
shipments of pseudoephedrine which is the base in the production of synthetic
drugs. The Sinaloa Cartel and Golfo Cartel are in dispute over Lazaro Cardenas.

The
Networks

The Valencia cell in
Zamora was led by Jorge Castro Barriga, who is supposedly dead and his sister
Laura Elvira worked as a secretary in the PFP office in Zamora. Laura has been
denounced for theft and criminal association in damage of the company
Transportes Julian, according to the previous ascertainment 304/204/IV, which
was integrated into the 4th agency of the Public ministry common law.

This inquiry mentions
at least theft to 400 cargo trucks and it is now in the hands of federal
authorities, since she "salpico" (paid off) Deputy Attorney General
of Zamora, Ignacio Mendoza Jimenez, who supposedly demanded 1 million pesos
from Erik Miguel Angel Rios accomplice of Laura Castro in the assault against
transporters to let him walk free.

Rios did not agree and
he put a complaint before the Secretary of Public Affairs file number 1880069
for extortion and breach of faith amongst other offenses.

Other alleged
associates of The Valencia, according to the report, are the siblings Rosalinda,
Susana, Norma, and Jorge Guizar Zepeda; as well as Sergio Armando, Jaime,
Aureliano, and Luis Humberto, brothers of Jorge Castro Barriga, and his
parents, Guadalupe Barriga Espinoza and Jaime Castro Ruiz.

The image states:
"This network presumably is involved with a person named Jesus Garcia
Torres, and Mr. Torres at the same time with the Tijuana Cartel led by the
Arellano Felix brothers."

In the final portion
(Annex 2 of the Network Structure for the "Milenio", Institutional
Protection), it mentions Javier Perez Solorzano, ex-first commander of the
State Attorney General's Office, Alejandro Aguilar Ramos, Carlos Morales,
Martin Zambrano Heredia. The latter is identified as an "auto parts
salesmen and alleged drug distributor at the service of The Valencia
Cornelio"

And at the Secretary of
the Interior they are shown as protectors of the Cartel, according to the
criminal diagnosis by the PGR and military intelligence, Juan Gaona Gomez,
coordinator of government agents in the state, Armando Cuadra Vega, government
agent in Uruapan, as well as the "brothers Pablo and Gerardo Sanchez,
government agents in the state of Michoacán that accompanied Luis Valencia
Valencia at the cockfights in Morelia".

After their alliance
with the Sinaloa Cartel, The Valencia are no longer identified by the PGR and
SSP as the Milenio Cartel, because that
is the name that they now use for the organization that is led by El Chapo
Guzman, although they are starting to learn more and more towards the idea that
the real BOSS of this Milenio group is Ismael El Mayo Zambada and that Guzman
Loera was only an emblematic figure whose function, aside from still taking
part in drug trafficking, is the distraction of authorities. According to data
from the PGR and some journalistic articles, El Chapo Guzman has decided to
leave his hiding spots and has started to frequent restaurants and public
places: a little over a year ago the Assistant Attorney General for Special
Investigations and Organized Crime (SIEDO) detected him downtown in a city in
the state of Durango.

On that occasion, El
Chapo Guzman Loera who escaped the prison in Puente Grande, Jalisco, on January
19th, 2001 was caught on camera by the Department of Public Security when he
was riding an ATV with his face having been changed after getting plastic
surgery, Guzman Loera looked according to the information from SIEDO less
chubby in the cheeks and apparently without "patas de gallo"
(wrinkles) around the eyes.

He was dressed casually
and wore tennis shoes. He was pursued, but the drug lord, who is classified by
the PGR "as the most intelligent", managed to escape. That is not
all: recently a message alert to the PGR that he was in the "B"
waiting area of the terminal for National Flights at the International Airport
in Mexico City.

Go to the airport, El
Chapo and his people are there and are about to board a plane headed to
Culiacan said the notice. No one at the PGR moved a muscle.

According to the
report, "Xray" of the drug trafficking organizations, elaborated by
the Secretary of Public Security, the alliance between The Valencia and the
Sinaloa Cartel strengthened the latter because it was able to amplify its
domains in Michoacán, Nuevo Leon, and Jalisco.

Furthermore, the report
says "it is presumed that it had high activity in the south-southeast part
of the country and a lesser presence in the northeast zone of the country.

The report of the SSP
identifies Luis Valencia Valencia, Óscar Orlando Nava Valencia, José Benavides
Martínez, Juan Calixto Ramos Vázquez, and Jose Silverio Martinez Gonzalez as
part of the first tier of command of the criminal organization.

In Michoacán and in a
good portion of the Pacific corridor, The Valencia where associated, some time
ago, with the Gulf Cartel, but a dispute between Armando Valencia and Carlos
Rosales, El Carlitos o El Tisico presumably caused by a love affair divided the
group to the point of confrontation. This took place in 2004 and because of it,
Rosales allied himself with Osiel Cardenas and the Valencias with El Chapo
Guzman.

Since then, both groups
control the majority of the ports on the Pacific, where they count with allies
in the maritime terminals and customs.

Coronel was hardcore cds... matazetas at their best was an armed wing that is all. However cuinis and the rest of the milenio were bigtime pushers. They made their fortune sending to Europe and staying away from the USA market. Things change and people become to powerful then the govt taxes that ass. Good old uncle Sam

Valencias have always Been bigger than most. Coronel was never bigger or richer than them. Not even Chapo. While Chapo was peddling grams out of rental houses in LA (according to the book:Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man, Who Steve Duncan vouched for) these guys were moving fishing boats filled with product and establishing routes and the methamphetamine market in the US

I remember the first time I heard about the MataZetas. And thinking to myself well at least they’re gonna be able to rid Mexico of these clowns once and for all. No one had ever confronted them about their evil ways. And then not thinking much about it afterwards. Life called elsewhere at the time. And now here we are years later and these guys seem to have grown exponentially beyond belief. I actually rooted for them in the beginning just to see Zetas wiped out completely. In the end they’re all pretty much the same. Shit just has different shades to it. - Sol Prendido

Yeah armando valencia was not the cuini valencias,cuini is not related to armando,its just his brother in law! But armando valencia pushed more weight then the so called lion nacho coronel,coronel would do favors for armando.armando would roam guadalajara and jalisco like nothing,was at every horse race racing for 1million dlls...this guy was the boss of guadalajara not nobody else!

All these government puppets betray each other the moment they are ordered by higher ups in the mexican government, they are real courteous and respectful by themselves and among each other, but the hungry Mexican government pooliticians are not!

El Senor Chapo Guzman has always been the greatest most fearless leader. He started selling oranges .He is a genius he hired an engineer to build a tunnel and was able to bring la merca to the USA undetected.The Colombians called him "El Rapido" because he was able to cross the goods in 48 hours or less. He was a legendary assasin before becoming the leader of CDS .He trained extensively with a CIA Black Ops team and a Blackwater Mercernary the jungles and mountains of Sinaloa and Durango were his training grounds. El Sr Chapo can last over 30 minutes of waterboarding because he was trained by the best. He also recieved specialized training in motorcycles from El Bravo who was with the Gafes.Im drinking a Buchanon remembering my missions with el Sr

Her name is inés she was rosales's wife and left him for one of the valencias. Also others have mentioned la ardilla one of the original zetas lost his girl to el z 40 and there were also problems. Mexico is full to the brim of beautifull mexican women. Stop fighting and get another one. There was a time when oziel cardenas carlos rosales and the valencias spoke as men in the same business and it all went to shit cus of a woman.

12:01 michoacan are no punks so they didn't pay no other cartel to pass drugs. Never wanted to and now they don't have to because they got Tijuana. They go to tamaulipas/texas without weak Zetas/golfos doing shit about it.

@ 12:01pm....oye vato,I simply said Michoacan dont fuck around. And its true. You definitely know first hand by that paragraph you responded with. Vato, trace any last name in mexico and more than likely it migrated from elsewhere....de que se murieron los quemados!....y una vez mas guey, Michoacan dont fuck around!

1:52 you only love one woman at a time, Chivis, You love her more than all the others at least, enough to part ways with friends and foes, send her husband to war, get him in prison for a long time and get him killed if he comes back...That's life and the world according to King David.RIP El Tisico

Close but he didn't RUN it.. he was given permission to work.. Basically he paid piso to R1 and el Flaco.. Miguel Aleman, Camargo,Diaz, Comales and Reynosa were my stomping grounds. Theres no way they would have just let him run anything just like that. Some growers from some place called Turicato Michoacan where there as well moving tons of weed at the time to.. They were independent but also paid piso.. thats what SOOOOOOOO many of those fake ass people or trolls dont understand.. The cartel is like the Italian mafia.. they dont have to be the ones with the stuff all they gotta do is control the boarder that way they can charge u then grease the politicians and chefs.. im return they'll let u roam a city in convoys so everyone pays up or gets wacked.. El chapo snitched guy...

@11:28...you stand correct. I miss interpret what I was trying to say. Most of the mota that came through Miguel Aleman was from Michoacán. Some from Zacatecas or Durango. Like I said in other postings, all they are, are investors in drug trafficking. It doesn't matter who's in control as long as they pay piso. At the end of the day, whoever has the best quality at the best price wins.

No problems i use to only post el chapo snitched and el chapo snitched but always had good info bout our area.. and u made good points as well.. after what happened to my tio ill continue to say el chapo snitched but if i have info ill give it as well.. peace to all amd live life because our number can be called at any moment El chapo snitched guy

Although this might relate more to the CNP post, I wonder where old-school members of La Resistencia stand in the CJNG-CNP war. Elpidio Mojarro Ramírez (el Pilo) was never captured in the La Resistencia-CJNG war and is presumably still at large. El Pilo took over La Resistencia after Molca’s capture and then nothing was heard of Pilo for years. I’d have to imagine operators like Pilo and other old Resistencia members fall onto the CNP side of the war. Anyone have any info on this?

>>I wonder where old-school members of La Resistencia stand in the CJNG-CNP war.

Molca’s interview clearly showed how petty they were in the business, combining their money every few months to send a shipment up north. I doubt they could sustain themselves after his capture and the eventual victory, as well as expansion of CJNG (Torcidos). I am guessing a bunch changed sides while the others fled for their lives.

>Elpidio Mojarro Ramírez (el Pilo) was never captured in the La Resistencia-CJNG war and is presumably still at large.

very interesting i have always wondered the same thing what actually happened to el Pilo did he join cjng la molca at the time of his arrest said some members went with cjng that la resistencia was finished, chivis what do you know about el pilo currently??

You guys have to understand most actions are done for power not necessarily money. After all this sent down, I can see Pilo if alive is probablh managing thousands of acres of agriculture and independently sending work. Always a safer route than working for an organization.

Menchos wife that just got busted was armando valencias ex or wife,they had a kid and mencho raised him,calls mencho dad! Armando would offer the kid 100's of kilos free to make ammends,not much is heard about him but believe me he runs shit also!!

Copying? Lol i know shit i dont need to copy or read shit,i know these cats believe it or not! Use to go huntinh with them in mexicali and zacatecas,chepa use to fly a helicopter to zacatecas to go hunting! Lalo went to africa once with his inlaws and spent 250000 on that trip! Anything else copycater guy lol!!

Yeah Chapo was just a scapegoat for Mayo right? Complete lies. Chapo was an OG member of the cartel de guadalajara he wasnt Mayos errand boy. Ivan was released from prison while Mayos kids were sent to the US. Who was more powerful?? Countless high profile investigations showed Chapo was #1 in the Sinaloa cartel heirarchy and the most feared in Sinaloa and Mexico. The DEA knew it.

El mayo and benjamin arellano once fucked up 90 millions dollars that belong to chapo. El chapo did not want to make a big deal of it because he feared mayo. El chapo is not a fall guy he was a capo but el mayo was always more powerful.

Chapo and Mayo went hand in hand. They both had clans independently of one another but one could not have had expanded without the other. They needed each other as they began to take on the rapid expansion plan they set forth after the plazas were split up. They knew they needed the borders, that were not assigned to them, so rather than pay piso to Arellano in TJ and Carrillo in Juarez they set in motion the attacks to remove them from power and take ownership of routes from SIN to the borders. Of course other parties would and did have to align w/ Chapo and Mayo to make this happen but that’s how it went. All the families in Culiacan backed Guzman/Zambada against the Carrillo’s and Arellanos for the sake of max profits and protection under the new FEDERATION. Mayo is the shadow man with connections beyond belief (high level gov) and Chapo was the enforcer.

The Juarez gig did not go so well now did it. Mayo did not support many actions of Chapo. Mayo always has had respect from most in Sinlaoa far more than Chapo. Eventually Flaco and Ovidio will be the main two heads with no Alfredo and no Ivan. Chapo Isidro will also be part of the new Federation as he is highly respected by Mayo and his organization. Alfredo and Ivan tremble with fear when they hear Chapo Isidro's name. Nobody in Culiacan like these brothers. Theu follow orders and go with the flow because of fear.

Check out El Lobo's sweet polo shirt. Are those ancient, mystical Toltec or Aztec symbols embroidered on the front? , providing him with extra powers and abilities beyond the common narco? He must have forgotten to invoke the power of invisibility from law enforcement.

Like I’ve been saying, I love my Sinaloa’s, but Michoacanos have always flown under the radar, paisa values still hold, they’re not all GUCCI’D OUT flossing their stuff, but if you come down to las fiestas de septiembre, all the way to diciembre you’ll clearly see who’s got the mula.. riding their horses and ATV’s.. real talk